About the Role
Under the supervision of the Clinical Supervisor, provides direct counseling services to patients.
Responsibilities
- Provides individual counseling and treatment/recovery plan preparation, monitoring and review
- Facilitates activities of daily living, community meetings, engagement, carrying out treatment planning in milieu
- Provide therapeutic interactions to foster patients social, cognitive and behavioral skill development
- Provide supervision of milieu staff
- Provide psychosocial interventions to teach skills for coping with urges, craving, impulsive behavior and cognitive distortions in thinking, motivational interviewing techniques
- Provide individual, group and family counseling
- Provide multi-family group counseling
- Plan and facilitate interactions with residents within the milieu to build social, emotional, and behavioral functioning
- Assisting in supervision of activities related to establishing a treatment environment
- Prepare and maintain case records
Requirements
- Minimum two years in a behavioral health/substance use disorder treatment program
- Regularly required to sit, use hands to type, handle or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear.
- Frequently required to stand, walk, stoop, kneel or crouch and lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.
Skills
- Ethical Practices
- Judgment
- Relationship Management
- Emotional Intelligence
- Empathy
- Professional Boundaries
- Global and Cultural Awareness
- Critical Evaluation
- Problem Solving
- Decision Making
- Communication
- Teamwork
- Crisis Management
- Technical Capacity
Location
- Long Island City, NY
Work Type
- Full Time
- Indoor office environment
Experience Level
- Minimum two years
Education Level
- High School Diploma or equivalent
- Credentialed Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Counselor (CASAC)
- LMSW/LMHC Preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $65,000.00 - $70,000.00
About the Company
- Nonprofit - Social Services
